Sean Justice 79 Rugby Avenue Staten Island, NY 10301 347-232-5471 justice@tc.columbia.edu EDUCATION Doctor of Education specializing in College Teaching, Ed.D.C.T. Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY Research area: Digital materiality; computer science education; teacher education; implications for inquiry and innovation in schools. Dissertation: Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: Digital Materiality and Maker Paradigms in Schools. Advisor: Dr. Judith Burton May 2015 Master of Arts in Studio Art, Photography & Video (MFA equivalent) New York University and International Center for Photography, New York, NY May 1987 Bachelor of Arts, English Literature The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC May 1983 TEACHING Instructor of Art and Technology Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY Program in Art & Art Education January 2010 to present Creative Programming for Teachers Digital Fabrication and Simple Electronics in Classrooms Photography for Educators; Digital Studio Themes Teacher education in the digital age Computer science as a creative literacy Educating for empathy and innovation via distributed expertise Teaching and learning art with digital technologies Curriculum Development Creative Technologies, a Master s level concentration in digital and emerging media, Program in Art & Art Education, in collaboration with Drs. Richard Jochum and Judith Burton Contributed to the development of objectives Assisted with writing new course proposals Implemented roll out with symposia, exhibitions, and workshops Strategized foundation grant proposals and new student recruitment
Digital Studio Service Myers Media Art Studio, Founder & Coordinator Manage and oversee art and media education with digital technologies and computational materials Inaugurated digital media independent studies at Master s level Played integral role in faculty explorations of digital media Designed and supervised construction of new media digital studio Developed and led edtpa workshops on videotaping practice Assisted faculty with integrating technologies into their teaching Contributed to college-wide technology expansion pilot study Instructor of Advanced Digital Photography International Center of Photography, New York, NY Program in General Studies & ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies 2002 to 2013 Digital Production Seminar; The Fine Art of Digital Printing; Collage/Montage in Contemporary Practice Themes Production of visual conversations Critique of intentionality Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography College of Staten Island, City University of New York, New York, NY Department of Performing and Creative Arts 2010 2012 Collage/Montage in Contemporary Practice; Photography & Digital Printing Adjunct Instructor of Photography, Media and Writing Parsons The New School for Design, School of Art, Design, History and Theory, New York, NY 2005 to 2012 Critical Reading and Writing (2010-2012) Design 1: Line to Pixel: Foundation Seminar (2009) Wired Studio, MFA Technology Seminar (2005 & 2010) Adjunct Instructor of Photography and Digital Art New York University, New York, NY Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development Department of Art & Arts Professions 2002 to 2009 Photography, Darkroom through Digital Introduction to Digital Art Adjunct Instructor of Photography Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ Art Department, Photography Division 1993 to 1997 History and Culture of Photography & Basic Photography Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 2
TEACHING K-12 International Center of Photography, New York Community Programs & Education; Teen Internship Seminar Leader 1999 Arizona Commission on the Arts, State Education Roster Artist, Arizona Presented photography workshops in K-12 schools statewide 1994 to 1996 Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Ajo, Arizona U.S. Jobs Training Program in the Arts Designed photojournalism project for teens exploring their community 1993 Sierra Vista Public Schools, Sierra Vista, Arizona Artist-in-Residence Public Art Project. Designed and led workshops in art and photography for teachers and their elementary, middle and high school students. 1999 Salpointe Catholic High School, Tucson, Arizona Photography, Photojournalism, Writing. Newspaper and yearbook photography moderator. 1988 to 1992 RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, CURATED EXHIBITIONS & INVITED PRESENTATIONS Research Justice, S. & Cabral, M. (in progress) Emerging technologies & metaphor. Exploring the way young children generate story and metaphor from digital 3D design/print activities. This study follows from our previous research, Material learning: Digital 3D with young children. This is a multiple trial observational study with video taped interviews. Justice, S. (in progress) What s art got to do with it? Exploring art and non-art teachers interactions with the maker movement in schools, especially as self-identified artists who do not teach art content. This is an interview study with surveys and observations. Publications Justice, S. & Cabral, M. (2013). Material learning: Digital 3D with young children. Proceedings from Fablearn 13: Conference in Digital Fabrication in Education, Stanford University, October 2013, Palo Alto, CA. Cabral, M., & Justice, S. (2013). Thinking in the making: 3D designing and printing with young children and the creation of thresholds for learning. Proceedings from 5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, July, 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Justice, S., & Williams, T. (2013). Motion, light, and space: Gesture in the digital age. Proceedings from The 3rd Annual International Thinking through Drawing Symposium & Drawing Research Network Conference, New York, NY. Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 3
Justice, S. (2013). Art that iterates: Exploring change as a condition of the artist s way of knowing, making, and doing. Introduction to exhibition catalog. Teachers College, Columbia University, Macy Art Gallery: The Myers Foundations. Justice, S. (2011). Pictures are words-not-known. Culture Hall Online. http://culturehall.com/feature_issues.html?no=80 Curated Exhibitions New Gifts: The Creative Technologies Exhibition (2015). Co-curator. Producer & installation designer. Macy Gallery. Teachers College Columbia University, New York. Art that iterates: Exploring change as a condition of the artist s way of knowing, making, and doing (2012). Curator, producer. Macy Gallery. Teachers College Columbia University, New York. Catalog available. Pictures are words-not-known: Conceptual photography from the faculty of the International Center of Photography (2011). Curator. Lishui Museum of Photography, Li Shui, China. Young artists emerging in America (2009). Curator, producer. Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China. Catalog available. Visions from the land of the morning calm: Contemporary photography from South Korea (1995). Curator, producer. Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona. Invited Presentations & Conference Presentations Justice, S. (2015, April). Code Poems, Cow Games and Protocol Puzzles: Creative Programming for Teachers. A professional development presentation for computer science teachers at the NYC Department of Education. New York, New York. Justice, S. (2015, April). Electric Origami. A materials exploration workshop with art education students. Tyler School of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Justice, S. & Cabral, M. (2015, March). Thinking in the Making: Digital 3D with Young Children. Presented at the National Art Education Association National Conference. New Orleans, Lousiana. Justice, S. (2015, March). Digital 3D Design for Art Teachers: How Art Teachers Learn to Use 3D Design and Print Materials, and Why They d Want To. Presented at the National Art Education Association National Conference. New Orleans, Lousiana. Justice, S. (2015, March). Scratch Programming for Teachers. A professional development workshop for K-12 teachers and principals. Presented at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Justice, S. & Jochum, R. (2014, April). Challenging Norms: Play & Imagination in the Integration of Digital and Traditional Materials. Presented at the National Art Education Association National Conference. San Diego, California. Justice, S. (2014, April). Code Poems, Cow Games, and Protocol Puzzles: Creative Programming for Art Teachers. Presented at the National Art Education Association National Conference. San Diego, California. Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 4
Justice, S. (2014, March). Cultivating Innovation: Creative Materials and Computer Technologies. Lecture conducted for Arts & Industry Day, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey. Justice, S. (2013, November). Material Teaching and Learning for Innovation. Two lectures conducted for the China Conference for International Education. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Justice, S. & Cabral, M. (2013, October). Material Learning: Digital 3D with Young Children. Panel discussion and poster presentation at FabLearn13: 3 rd Digital Fabrication in Education Conference. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Justice, S. (2013, October). Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: Digital Fabrication and New Learning Paradigms in Schools. Presented at the 9th Annual Graduate Research in Art Education Conference. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Justice, S. (2012, February). Protocol Toys: Technology as Spectrum, Art as Play. Lecture conducted for the doctoral colloquium in Communication, Computing & Technology in Education, Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY. Justice, S. (2012, October). New Turnings of a Networked Age: Reconsidering Photographic Actions. Presented at the Critical Information Conference, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. MEDIA PRODUCTION Sean Justice Studios 2009 to currently Independent artist working with digital materials: digital 3D, augmented reality, code and web design, animation, video and photography (http://seanjustice.com). Sean Justice Photography 1994 to 2009 Commercial photography studio specializing in advertising and image libraries. Digital Production Skills Digital photography, postproduction and fine art digital printing Page layout and typography, digital books and magazines Video production shooting and editing, motion for web and cinema display Website construction for research, presentations, publicity, blogs, and artwork Computer programming for art and generative interactions Digital 3D design and print Software: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Processing, html/css, jquery, basic Javascript, digital workflow management Selected Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2014 The Breathing Pictures, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2012 The Breathing Pictures & Animations, Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong, China Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 5
2008 Vessels & Banners, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NY 2005 Imagining Pictures, Watts-on-Smith. Brooklyn, NY 2001 Play, Series 1, Gallery Henoch. New York, NY 1995 Mountain Meditations, Bero Gallery. Tucson, AZ 1992 Sierra Vista Public Journal, Sierra Vista Arts Center. Sierra Vista, AZ Group Exhibitions 2015 Video & Photographs, Carris Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2015 Photographs, Gallery Spatvum, Lincoln, NE 2014 Generative Drawings, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2014 Photographs, International Center of Photography Education Gallery, NY 2013 Video Art, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal 2013 Video Art, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China 2011 Photographs, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Photographs, Pingyao, China 2011 Photographs, Ampersand House and Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2010 Photographs, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2009 Photographs, Horticultural Society of New York, NY 2009 Photographs, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China 2008 Photographs, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Photographs, Bamboo Festival, Anji, China 2007 Photographs, Room Salon, New York, NY 2006 Photographs, International Center of Photography Education Gallery, NY 1997 Photographs, San Marcos Fine Arts Center, San Marcos, TX 1996 Photographs, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, Korea 1996 Photographs, Dinnerware Artists Cooperative, Tucson, AA 1996 Photographs, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT 1996 Visual Performance, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 1995 Visual Performance, Scottsdale Performance Center, Scottsdale, AZ AWARDS, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS Susan L. Kriegman Endowed Scholarship 2013-14. Dissertation completion support. Teachers College, Columbia University Myers Art Prize Competition 2010-2011. Purchase Award. Teachers College Columbia University Society for Photographic Education, Northeast Region, 2007: Regional Conference Scholarship Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ 1996. In-Between Places, a photographic documentary on rural communities along Interstate-10 between Tucson and Phoenix Quintessence Chamber Music Quintet, Phoenix, AZ 1994 & 1995. Commission to produce a visual concert for the Fall 1994 series. Re-presented in Fall 1995 Tucson Arts Channel, Tucson, AZ 1993 94. Video commission showcasing the arts in Tucson. City of Sierra Vista, Sierra Vista, AZ 1992. Commission for social documentary public art Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ 1992. Roadside Memories, arts and culture grant, a photographic project on the death memorials on the Tohono O'odham reservation Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 6
SERVICE TO THE FIELD Creative Technologies Symposium at Teachers College, Fall 2014. Co-organizer with Dr. Richard Jochum. Designed and planned program; invited speakers; arranged logistics; created website; organized volunteers. Scratch Day Conference at Teachers College, Fall 2014. Coordinated with Logo Foundation (official sponsor), Code-to-Learn Foundation and the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College; arranged speakers and evaluated workshop proposals; oversaw all schedule logistics, volunteers and day-of management. Going Global: International Youth Electronic Exchange Project. Advisory Committee, since 2013. Japan Society, New York, NY. Advisory Team member, Curriculum Handbook. Community Arts Organizer, 1989-1994. Tucson, AZ. Founding member photographic arts group; organized nonprofit status; directed exhibitions and community events; secured grants. SPECIAL PROJECTS Reading Berger in Beijing: A photography and cultural workshop in China. 2010. Beijing, China. International Center of Photography (NYC) and Three Shadows Photography and Art Center (Beijing). Artists visualized cultural assumptions taken for granted & photographed them. Young Artists Emerging in America. 2009. Pingyao, China. Photography from colleges in New York City. Pingyao International Photography Festival. Education forum was presented. A translation wiki enabled Western artists to work with Chinese counterparts. Translations were installed with their photographs. Performance: Visual Instrumentation. 1995. Scottsdale, Arizona. Multi-projector visual interpretation of original music by John Steinmetz. Commissioned by Quintessence Chamber Music Quintet. Performed live with the quintet at festivals in Arizona. Supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Visions from the Land of the Morning Calm Korea: Exhibition and Artist Series. 1995. Tucson, Arizona. Project Director. Directed all phases: exhibition & traveling exhibition, community outreach, grant writing and fundraising, education projects, and public forum about Korean photography at the Tucson Museum of Art, featuring Bae Bien-U and Koo Bohn-Chang. Public Art Residency: Sierra Vista Public Schools, Sierra Vista, Arizona. 1992. Community and K-12 residency and commission to create an interpretative photographic documentary about cultural diversity in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Final project consisted of 50 photographs and photocollages exhibited in municipal buildings and offices for more than three years. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS National Art Education Association College Art Association Society of Photographic Education REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Sean Justice, justice@tc.columbia.edu, (347) 232-5471, page 7